ASTAXIA. 



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Hob. Costa Eica, Candelaria Mts. 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp, 40 millim. 



{Underwood), 1 (S type, 



1235. Amaxia apyga, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 7.) 

 Amaxia pyga, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 369 (nee Scbaus). 



c? . Head, tegulse, and base of patagia bright yellow ; palpi above 

 and antennae brown ; thorax and abdomen brown, the latter yellow 

 towards extremity ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white ; 

 fore and mid legs yellow. Fore wing bright yellow, with a large 

 brown patch on inner area extending below the costa from base to 

 middle, then to inner margin near tornus, its edges irregular, a 

 crimson point on middle of median nervure and slight streaks on the 

 veins and interspaces ; a discoidal brown point and a series beyond 

 the cell between veins 3 and 7 ; a postmedial series, of which four 

 towards apex are larger, edged with crimson, curved and more or less 

 conjoined ; a subterminal series. Hind wing brown, with the costa 

 and termen yellow to the submedian fold. 



Hah. Costa Eica, Candelaria Mts. (Undertvood), 1 (S type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Hondueas ; Amazons, Olivencas. Fxy. 

 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with the costa less strongly lobed and with small 

 patches of androconia on fore and hind wings ; vein 2 from the cell, 

 3 and 5 on a long stalk. 



A. Fore wing without silvery markings on inner area. 



a. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with scarlet, dyuna. 



b. Fore wing with the veins streaked with scarlet erythrophleps. 



B. Fore wing with silvery markings on inner ai*ea chao7i (5 ). 



1236. Amaxia dyuna. 



Amaxia dyuna, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. See. iv. p. 135 (1896). 



c? . Head and thorax bright yellow ; palpi above, frons, and 

 pectus in front marked with crimson ; patagia and thorax with 

 patches of crimson and brown ; fore legs streaked with fuscous ; 



abdomen crimson, a dorsal 

 spot on 2nd segment and 

 the terminal segment yel- 

 low, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing bright 

 yellow, with crimson - 

 edged basal and three 

 sub basal spots ; a very 

 large oblique and very 

 irregular medial patch 

 from below costa to inner 

 margin near tornus ; a discoidal spot and a series beyond the cell 



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Fig. 26. — Amaxia dyuna, ^ . 



